Reply With Quoteyour long gau fishes might have eaten your shrimps..
i've got 5 yamato shrimps in a 5G tank with neon tetras and 2 1inch long "long gau" fish. obviously not a very threatening environment. yesterday after coming home, i found my shrimps missing. i could not find them anywhere with touch light as i tried to look around the tank without disturbing the insides of the tank.
i noticed 3 of the shrimps molted recently, 1 after another. is that why all of them are hidden away? i know shrimps hide when molting. but after molting? do they do so too? do shrimps in the same tank all like to molt together? i know female close friends share similar pattern. but do shrimps do so too?
i'm probably just over-anxious. this is my first fish tank. i wish there are more detailed scientific data base somewhere online.
your long gau fishes might have eaten your shrimps..
eh... my long gau fish are super small, only slightly bigger than neon tetra.
anyway the 4/5 of the shrimps appeared again with 2 more molted exoskeletons appearing. seems like... the shrimps all molt together in the same period of time. but i just don't get where did they hide themselves earlier. can yamato shrimps burrow?
Hey bro... I know how you feel.. Well.. From my experience, yamato loves to escape the tank and crawl around the house.. And awhile later, will be found lying on the floor dead..
It happened to me on 3 separate occasions already. Start with 10 ends with 6.. One way to fight it is to either cover your tank or just do something to prevent them from escaping. Like force them to settle down? Good luck man.
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Joseph Soh
Alamak... Sorry never see your last post. They dont burrow. They find the darkest places to hide and molt. They also wont really eat. They will reappear when they are comfortable enough.
Joseph Soh
sorry to hear that.. but those shrimp may crawl out of tank or may be they are berried
found them. they occasionally pop out the past 2 days. most of the time... they hide themselves REALLY REALLY well along the small edges blindspots. i had to user LED and laser pointers to just see tiny wheeny little bit of them...
Nice to heard tat. Shrimp like to hide..
all suddenly died overnight...
ahh. condolences.. might wanna try setting up a shrimp only tank instead. maybe it became too stressful for them.
dunno eh. they were doing fine. sigh. anyway i'm gonna change to a bigger tank with more plants, less neon tetra. after that then buy some sakura.
the stress factor, maybe if more room + more plants/ hiding spots + less fishie will be better
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